Friday last week I was assessed on the last route that my depot signs for beginners and yesterday I signed all the required paperwork.
As of today I became a fully productive driver at South West Trains and more importantly my pay went up!
So from the humble beginnings at Basingstoke train centre until this morning when I reported as the 0600 spare driver the following has elapsed...
344 days, 21 hours, 0 minutes and 0 seconds or:
- 29,797,200 seconds
- 496,620 minutes
- 8277 hours
- 49 weeks (rounded down)
Seems like a long time and I must admit it has felt long on some days. When I came in I asked to cover some work, I haven't spent all this time training to sit today and do nothing and I was duly rewarded.
I was asked to cover the front half of a turn that was another drivers and so at 0709 I made my was as a passenger down to Portsmouth Harbour where my train was waiting.
and this is it 2P94 0729 Portsmouth Harbour to London Waterloo
All went well and I later returned with a different unit back to Fratton where I finished for the day.
a copy of my schedule today. I only had to drive up to where it crossed out and nothing on the right side but it was a nice run to ease it. The stations are crossed out as you stop at them and the large numbers are how many coaches the trains had!
Although my official training has come somewhat to an end I plan to try and update this blog every now and again if anything of interest happens. Feel free to leave messages if you want to ask questions and I'll do what I can to help!
Thanks for reading!
